Ezekiel 27

1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

5 They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.

7 Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.

8 The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.

9 The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

10 Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

11 Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.

12 Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.

14 The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

15 The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

16 Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.

18 Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,

19 and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

20 Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.

22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

24 In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.

25 The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

26 Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

27 Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

29 All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.

30 They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

32 As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

33 When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.

34 Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

35 All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.

36 Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”

1 ¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.

4 Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

5 They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

6 [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of Chittim.

7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.

9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

11 The men of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

12 Tarshish [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all [kind of] riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

15 The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee [for] a present horns of ivory and ebony.

16 Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

18 Damascus [was] thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

20 Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy merchants.

22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they [were] thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.

24 These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things], in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

26 ¶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, and in all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing.

32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], What [city is] like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

34 In the time [when] thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in [their] countenance.

36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] any more.

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

2 Son of man, make a lamentation for Tyre.

3 And say unto Tyre, which lieth by the sea, and traffitteth with many isles of the nations: Thus saith the LORD GOD; O Tyre, thou sayest, I am the most beautiful.

4 Thy borders are in the midst of the sea, and thy builders have made thee most beautiful.

5 They have made all thy table-work of cypress wood of the Sanir, and have led the cedars of Lebanon, and have made thy mast-trees of them.

6 And, thy oars of oaks out of Bashan, and thy benches of ivory, and the goodly chairs out of the isles of Chittim.

7 Thy sail was of embroidered silk out of Egypt, to be thy banner; and thy covering of yellow silk and purple out of the isles of Elisha.

8 They of Zidon and Arvad were thy oarsmen, and thou hadst skillful men to ship to Tyre.

9 The elders and the wise men of Gebal made thy ships. All the ships of the sea, and the mariners, were found in thee: they had their trade in thee.

10 They that came out of Persia, and Lydia, and Libya, were thy people of war, that put up their shield and their helmet in thee, and made thee so fair.

11 They of Arvad were among thy host round about thy walls, and watchmen upon thy towers: they have hung down their shields from thy walls every where, and have made thee fair.

12 Thou hast had thy trade upon the sea, and hast brought all manner of merchandise, silver, iron, tin, and lead, into thy markets.

13 Javan, and Thubal, and Mesech, have traded with thee, and have brought thee bondmen and brass into thy markets.

14 They of Thogarmah have brought thee horses and chariots and mules to thy markets.

15 They of Dedan have been thy merchants, and have traded in all the isles: they have sold thee ivory and ebony.

16 The Syrians have bought from thee thy work which thou hast made, and brought into thy markets ruby, and purple, and tapestry, and silk, and silk waste, and crystals.

17 Judah also and the land of Israel have traded with thee, and have brought thee wheat of Minnith, and balm, and honey, and oil, and mastic, into thy markets;

18 And Damascus also hath offered unto thee thy work, and all manner of merchandise, and strong wine, and fine wool.

19 Dan, and Javan, and Mehusal, have also brought into thy markets the ironwork, and the cassia, and the calamus, to trade with thee.

20 Dedan hath dealt with thee in decks to sit upon.

21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar have dealt with thee in sheep rams and goats.

22 The merchants of Sheba and Raema have traded with thee, and brought into thy markets all manner of precious spices, and precious stone, and gold.

23 Haran, and Kanne, and Eden, and the merchants of Sheba, and Assyria, and Kilmad, have been thy merchants.

24 They have all traded with thee in precious raiment, in silken and embroidered cloths, which they have brought into thy markets in precious boxes made of cedar, and well kept.

25 But the ships of the sea have been the chief of thy markets. So thou hast become very rich and glorious in the midst of the sea.

26 And thy shipmen have led thee upon great waters. But an east wind shall break thee up in the midst of the sea,

27 also daß deine Ware, Kaufleute, Händler, Fergen, Schiffsherren und die, so die Schiffe machen, und deine Hantierer und alle deine Kriegsleute und alles Volk in dir mitten auf dem Meer umkommen werden zur Zeit, wenn du untergehest,

28 And the seas shall shake at the cry of thy shipmasters.

29 And all that pull the oars, and the masters, and the servants, shall be taken out of the ships unto the sea. tread land

30 And cry aloud against thee, and mourn bitterly, and shall cast dust upon their heads, and roll themselves in ashes.

31 They shall be bald upon thee, and shall gird sackcloth about thee, and shall weep bitterly for thee with their hearts, and shall mourn for thee.

32 Their children also shall lament over thee, Alas, who ever was so still on the sea as thou, O Tyre?

33 When thou didst trade upon the sea, thou didst make many countries rich; yea, with the multitude of thy merchandise and of thy trade thou didst make the kings of the earth rich.

34 But now thou art plunged from the sea into the very deep waters, so that thy commerce and all thy people are perished in thee.

35 All they that dwell in isles are terrified at thee, and their kings are astonished, and they look miserably.

36 The merchants of countries whistle at thee, that thou art gone down so suddenly, and canst not arise again.